The Public and Private Life of His Late...Majesty, George the Third: Embracing Its Most Memorable Incidents...and Tending to Illustrate the Causes, Progress, and Effects, of the Principal Political Events of His Glorious Reign. Comprising, Also, A...historical Memoir of the House of Brunswick...translated Expressly for this History, from the Celebrated Latin Work, Entitled Origines Guelphicae... |
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Charles Dickens. The Reign of Edward the Third The Reign of Richard the Second The Reign of Henry the Fourth , called Bolingbroke The Reign of Henry the Fifth The Reign of Henry the Sixth The Reign of Edward the Fourth The Reign of ...
Charles Dickens. The Reign of Edward the Third The Reign of Richard the Second The Reign of Henry the Fourth , called Bolingbroke The Reign of Henry the Fifth The Reign of Henry the Sixth The Reign of Edward the Fourth The Reign of ...
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... reigns of Edward V. and Richard III . has been written with more than ordinary care and elaboration by Mr. Sharon Turner , in his History of England during the Middle Ages ; and his successors can scarcely hope to glean more than a few ...
... reigns of Edward V. and Richard III . has been written with more than ordinary care and elaboration by Mr. Sharon Turner , in his History of England during the Middle Ages ; and his successors can scarcely hope to glean more than a few ...
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... les nations civilisées est attaché à la fin d'une guerre qui em- brase le monde entier . " De Votre Majesté , etc. etc. " BONAFARTE . " sincerely desirous of peace . The republic , during his 4 THE LIFE AND REIGN OF.
... les nations civilisées est attaché à la fin d'une guerre qui em- brase le monde entier . " De Votre Majesté , etc. etc. " BONAFARTE . " sincerely desirous of peace . The republic , during his 4 THE LIFE AND REIGN OF.
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... reign and that of his predecessor , and it was so treated in the courts of law , as well as in parlia- ment . It has been already shown by a case from the Year - Books of the latter reign that in those times , at all events , the two reigns ...
... reign and that of his predecessor , and it was so treated in the courts of law , as well as in parlia- ment . It has been already shown by a case from the Year - Books of the latter reign that in those times , at all events , the two reigns ...
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... reign , and counteract the mighty and destructive operations of sin ; or she cannot bring the sinner to eternal life . For the Holy Spirit has compared sin to a so- vereign , whose reign terminates in death . ( Rom . v . 21. ) As sin ...
... reign , and counteract the mighty and destructive operations of sin ; or she cannot bring the sinner to eternal life . For the Holy Spirit has compared sin to a so- vereign , whose reign terminates in death . ( Rom . v . 21. ) As sin ...
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Page 428 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 315 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Page 111 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 313 - Johnson said he thought he had already done his part as a writer. "I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well.
Page 203 - Whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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Page 231 - We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne.
Page 200 - It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O Lord [' Holy Father], Almighty, Everlasting God.
Page 77 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 532 - ... such as speak wrong. 15 I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 16 O tarry thou the LORD'S leisure ; be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart ; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.